…so allow me to rant a wee bit:

Fuck the 9/11 commission. No, seriously fuck it. Not a single thing has been accomplished and all it's served to do thus far is to be a platform of partisan blamesmenship. Doomacrats saying Bush spectacular destroyed our national security in the 9 months of office from its glorious height of utopian peace we were at circa January '01. The 'Publican administration claiming it "did everything possible to prevent the attacks" and parading some there superior emphasis on raising our protection from the pre-Jurassic levels it was circa '01.

Here's the real deal: Everybody blew it. EVERBODY. Clinton was a pussy, and the 'publicans didn't care. Nobody of sufficient power understood the threat, and they’ve got nobody to blame but themselves. So that's why they’re blaming other people of sufficient power. If we could ever end this political grandstanding bullshit, maybe, just maybe we can go back finding more asses to kick. We're into serious "let he who is without sin..." time now (heh, biblical reference on Easter)

The longer superfluous bickering goes on, the less compassionate I get. If as a country, we're still bitching and moaning about who woulda/shoulda/coulda about 9/11 a year from now, I'm adopting the Swordfish foreign policy:

They bomb a church, we bomb ten.
They hijack a plane, we take out an airport.
They execute American tourist, we tactically nuke an entire city.
Our job is to make terrorism so horrific that is becomes unthinkable to attack Americans

Okay, time for bed, don't want to be late for Easter services tomorrow.